It's worth pointing out that the original Dunning-Kruger paper didn't find that the ignorant are more confident than the knowledgeable, only that the ignorant a

It's worth pointing out that the original Dunning-Kruger paper didn't find that the ignorant are more confident than the knowledgeable, only that the ignorant are overconfident and the knowledgeable are underconfident. Many people have in mind a curve of confidence vs knowledge[0] that looks nothing like the curve from the paper[1]. [0] https://imgur.com/r/psychology/jbo2gy5 https://imgur.com/r/psychology/jbo2gy5 [1] http://www.talyarkoni.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/dunning_kruger.png http://www.talyarkoni.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/du..., with a good writeup at http://www.talyarkoni.org/blog/2010/07/07/what-the-dunning-kruger-effect-is-and-isnt/ http://www.talyarkoni.org/blog/2010/07/07/what-the-dunning-k...